Sentences with phrase «evolving role of law»

At the 2012 Futures Conference, the wide - ranging discussion included topics from diversity to the evolving role of law firm leaders to value billing and much more.

But O'Grady also takes close looks at new legal research platforms, interviews legal publishing leaders, and explores the evolving role of law librarians as the profession absorbs new technology and law firms rethink how they serve clients.

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Since the U.S. Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the first law that articulated a federal role in enforcing the rights of disabled people, the laws surrounding the education of children with special needs have evolved.

The role of chance and indeterminacy, the specific choices of the natural selection process, and even possible alternative sets of physical laws would have caused a quite different world to evolve.

To some extent I was a bit surprised when I started in 2005 that there was a distinct lack of software for the legal industry, and I was aware that the time was right for the industry to start evolving technology and software in order for it to play its role in law.

Some of it has happened sort of independently of what the lawyers have actually been doing, and more having to do with how Google's getting smarter, and when we talk about specifically in local search, that's definitely played a big role, that Google has evolved to give much more localized and personalized results than they used to, and that's caused the effect of people in your local area being able to find local lawyers, as opposed to if you wrote about a consumer law post and somebody on the other side of the country finds it, now you're going to see Google serving results for consumer lawyers that are in the neighborhood, around the corner.

As the role of finance director in law rapidly evolves, to manage the many challenges it brings requires a broad skill - set.

While I acknowledge the vital role that culture plays with respect to defining each law firm's working environment, creating expected behaviors, and establishing a «glue» among the lawyers, I am increasingly seeing law firms where their cultures are not evolving with the times and needs of the firm.

One month later, a unanimous Ontario Court of Appeal in Jones v. Tsige, 2012 ONCA 32 recognized the tort of «intrusion upon seclusion» and alluded to the guardian role of the Courts and the common law to «evolve» in the manner in which it protects privacy rights.

She has a particular interest in the evolving role of technology in family law.

While he was initially «very focused on pricing,» his role has evolved to meet the greater demands around the business of law.

In his role as deputy general counsel and in consultation with his peers at other large law firms, Max has practical knowledge in crafting real - world solutions and addressing an evolving set of risk management and information governance challenges,» commented Eric Mosca, director of operations for InOutsource.

This post was written by Rob Thomas, vice president, Market Development Group, Corporate Legal segment at Thomson Reuters The recent Legal Week Corporate Counsel Forum in Surrey provided a look into the latest developments in the in - house profession, from the evolving role of the general counsel, to pressures on law departments to operate more efficiently,...

Legal operations professionals are often hired to solve one problem in a legal department, but the role quickly evolves into working with legal department leadership (whether a General Counsel or Chief Legal Officer) to address the full range of issues facing the company's legal department's problems that don't involve practicing law.

This area of the law is evolving as new light is being shed on college campus suicides, and as universities begin to reevaluate their roles in ensuring that students receive proper mental health care.

Professor Dr. Christopher Zorn of Penn State University has posted slides of his presentation, entitled The Legal Industry 2013, given 18 October 2013, at the Campbell University Law Review Symposium 2013: The Evolving Role of the Corporate Counsel: How Information... Continue reading →

As advances in law technology revolutionize today's legal landscape, the role of the legal professional has evolved.

Chief executive Des Hudson says: «The role of in - house lawyers has evolved greatly since the first ECJ ruling on this question in 1982 and the case law should reflect the realities of the 21st century.

Law school does not prepare practitioners to practice, and lacks intellectual rigor (it's remarkable that a discipline founded on the interpretation of texts pays virtually no formal attention to hermeneutics and only outsiders like Stanley Fish, with his background as an English professor, ever write about «theory»; few law schools offer any courses providing any historical or sociological context for the evolving role of common law in capitalist societLaw school does not prepare practitioners to practice, and lacks intellectual rigor (it's remarkable that a discipline founded on the interpretation of texts pays virtually no formal attention to hermeneutics and only outsiders like Stanley Fish, with his background as an English professor, ever write about «theory»; few law schools offer any courses providing any historical or sociological context for the evolving role of common law in capitalist societlaw schools offer any courses providing any historical or sociological context for the evolving role of common law in capitalist societlaw in capitalist society).

These roles will become increasingly essential as the practice of law evolves: how we incorporate data analytics into our services to deliver new insights and solutions will be increasingly central to a forward thinking, data - driven legal environment.»

However, the law is more likely to evolve in that direction if law societies provide some specific guidance, in the rules of professional conduct, for the role of ethics counsel.

writes «Law firms today face increased pressure to do «more for less» resulting in rapidly growing interest in compelling technology - augmented hybrid offerings: focused on process - oriented work, applied at scale, leveraging technology to produce effective solutions that address the GCs evolving role as manager of legal spend and supply chain risk.

Child custody had been traditionally awarded to mothers from the onset of the 20th century, but as the father's role in the family evolved, laws changed to allow fathers custody, and eventually, the concept of joint custody was created.